The Ashes 2021-22 - England in Australia

**themaclad** · (This post was last modified: 29-11-2021, 19:32 by Ska'dForLife-WBA.)

England squad for Ashes tour of Australia

Joe Root (Yorkshire) captain, James Anderson (Lancashire), Jonathan Bairstow (Yorkshire), Dom Bess (Yorkshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Rory Burns (Surrey), Jos Buttler (Lancashire) wk, Zak Crawley (Kent), Haseeb Hameed (Nottinghamshire), Dan Lawrence (Essex), Jack Leach (Somerset), Dawid Malan (Yorkshire), Craig Overton (Somerset), Ollie Pope (Surrey), Ollie Robinson (Sussex), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire), Mark Wood (Durham).

jjamez · 11-10-2021, 11:47

Can't say I'm surprised by any of the selections here, but can say I'm a little disappointed and would have gone with a few others in the touring party.

There's still a lion's squad to be named and I believe that they are going to be touring fairly close to main squad, so there's nothing in theory stopping another player being added to the main squad a few days before a test match

**Ska'dForLife-WBA** · (This post was last modified: 16-01-2022, 23:11 by Ska'dForLife-WBA.)

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December

Wednesday 8th - 1st Test vs Australia, The Gabba (Australia win by 9 wickets)
Thursday 16th - 2nd Test vs Australia, Adelaide Oval (Australia win by 275 runs)
Saturday 25th - 3rd Test vs Australia, Melbourne Cricket Ground (Australia win by an innings and 14 runs)

January

Tuesday 4th - 4th Test vs Australia, Sydney Cricket Ground (Match drawn)
Friday 14th - 5th Test vs Australia, Blundstone Arena Hobart (Australia win by 146 runs)

All dates and venues subject to alteration due to COVID-19

**Ska'dForLife-WBA** · 30-11-2021, 14:49

England in Australia - Records

Highest Innings Totals

1. Australia 662-9d - Perth, 14th December 2017
2. Australia 659-8d - Sydney, 13th December 1946
3. Australia 649-7d - Sydney, 4th January 2018
4. Australia 645 - Brisbane, 29th November 1946
5. England 644 - Sydney, 3rd January 2011

Lowest Innings Totals

1. Australia 42 - Sydney, 10th February 1888
2. England 45 - Sydney, 28th January 1887
3. Australia 58 - Brisbane, 4th December 1936
4. England 61 - Melbourne, 5th March 1904
5. England 61 - Melbourne, 1st January 1902

Highest Individual Scores

1. Robert Cowper 307 - Melbourne, 11th February 1966
2. Reginald Foster 287 - Sydney, 11th December 1903
3. Donald Bradman 270 - Melbourne, 1st January 1937
4. Walter Hammond 251 - Sydney, 14th December 1928
5. Justin Langer 250 - Melbourne, 26th December 2002

Best Bowling Figures In An Innings

1. Arthur Mailey 9-121 - Melbourne, 11th February 1921
2. George Lohmann 8-35 - Sydney, 25th February 1887
3. Albert Trott 8-43 - Adelaide, 11th January 1885
4. George Lohmann 8-58 - Sydney, 29th January 1892
5. Wilfred Rhodes 8-68 - Melbourne, 1st January 1904

Most Runs In A Series

1. Walter Hammond 905 - 1928/29
2. Donald Bradman 810 - 1936/37
3. Alastair Cook 766 - 2010/11
4. Herbert Sutcliffe 734 - 1924/25
5. Steven Smith 687 - 2017/18

Most Wickets In A Series

1. Rodney Hogg 41 - 1978/79
2. Maurice Tate 38 - 1924/25
3. Mitchell Johnson 37 - 2013/14
4. Arthur Mailey 36 - 1920/21
5. Geoff Lawson 34 - 1982/83

**Lord Snooty** · 30-11-2021, 21:52

Just noticed Sky have lost this as well. What have they go tleft now apart from Netball and Darts? Don't know why we bother with it, they're losing more sports than the BBC. Angry

**Ska'dForLife-WBA** · 30-11-2021, 22:15

Pretty sure BT had the Ashes last time Down Under, too. They've had a good working relationship with Cricket Australia for years, broadcasting the men's internationals every winter, and I guess Sky aren't interested in buying that kind of package deal (i.e. showing Aussie cricket each year) just so they can have the Ashes once every four years.

**Ska'dForLife-WBA** · 06-12-2021, 17:43

As suspected, we'll have to wait another few years for a first Ashes Test at the Optus Stadium, as the quarantine rules in Western Australia have forced the match elsewhere. Current options on the table are a return to Melbourne for the final Test, Sydney doubling up to host the last two back-to-back, or an inaugural Ashes match for the Manuka Oval in Canberra or the Bellerive Oval/Blundstone Arena in Hobart.

Cricket Australia will probably go for the "ker-ching" option of the MCG or SCG with their enormous capacity, which is a shame as Hobart does have a lovely ground, and it would have been a nice bit of history to take the Ashes to Tasmania for the first time.

**Ska'dForLife-WBA** · 07-12-2021, 15:27

Twelve-man squad for the first Test: Root, Broad, Burns, Buttler, Hameed, Leach, Malan, Pope, Robinson, Stokes, Woakes, Wood. Jimmy Anderson rested.

With rain forecast to some extent on all five days in Brisbane, we'll hopefully see something a bit different from the last couple of tours. England historically perform well during La Niña summers in Australia.

**Ska'dForLife-WBA** · (This post was last modified: 08-12-2021, 02:32 by Ska'dForLife-WBA.)

England win the toss at the Gabba and will bat first.

Aaaaaaand Rory Burns is bowled round his legs off the very first ball. Farewell my carefully-nurtured optimism Rolleyes

Malan edges to slip. 11-2. Think I can hear my bed calling.

Root edges to slip for a duck. 11-3. That's definitely me up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.

**St Charles Owl** · 08-12-2021, 02:42

Oh dear, nightmare start for England!! Going to take 3 or 4 heroes from the middle/lower order to save this!!!